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Michael Mahemoff
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21 episodes available.
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averaging 52 mins duration.

HNpod is a weekly podcast discussion the top stories on Hacker News, brought to you by Player FM, the best way to find and play podcasts in your browser. Featuring founders, HNers and opinionated hackers. (v1)

Interview Guest Joel Gascoigne Host Michael Mahemoff Topics * Joel's programming+startup background * A Minimum Viable Product success story * Building the product and company * Organically building up a successful content marketing approach * News and stories that interest bloggers * The Buffer experience on mobile, and differences between iOS and Android * How Buffer has grown, and what Joel's learned as CEO * Fundraising * Working in Hong Kong * Buffer's Technology Stack * Joel’s daily routine Additional Links http://bufferapp.com/ Twitter @bufferapp http://joel.is/ MyBlogGuest http://myblogguest.com/ BloggerLinkUp http://www.bloggerlinkup.com/ Notes Some delay on this episode, which was recorded in December. There were some audio issues, as you can tell, due to a bad connection...easing them out took some time.
By HNpodPublisher: Michael Mahemoff

Guest James Gill – CEO/Co-Founder of GoSquared (https://www.gosquared.com/) Host Michael Mahemoff (http://player.fm/) Topics Starting a company in high school First and second funding rounds Team breakdown Workflow Tools The GoSquared product and its evolution Business development Design community and inspiration Management Personal gadgets and setup Additional Links Go Squared http://twitter.com/JamesJGill JamesGill – Tumblr Thanks Special thanks to Google Campus for hosting the interview, Ade Oshineye and Simon McManus for the intro.
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Guests Sean Grove: Senior Software Engineer, Entrepreneur and Founder of Zenbox (http://trapm.posterous.com/) and (http://www.zenboxapp.com/). Paul Kinlan: Senior Developer Advocate at Google (http://paul.kinlan.me/ and http://webintents.org/). Stuart Memo: Web and iPhone Developer and creator of Question Park. (http://stuartmemo.com/) and (http://questionpark.com/). Stuart will be presenting at Protothon on November 30, 2012. The link to the website can be found here: http://protothon.com/events/chrome-media/ More on our guests can be found at http://www.hnpod.com/guests. Host Michael Mahemoff (http://player.fm/) Topics Show HN: v0.1 of my book "Why programmers work at night" https://leanpub.com/nightowls http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4799314 I Don't Want to be Part of Your Ecosystem http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2012/11/i-dont-want-to-be-part-of-your-fucking-ecosystem/ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4821928 What Happens When A Twitter Client Hits The Token Limit (marco.org) http...
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Guests Steven Corona: Blogger and CTO of TwitPic and author of Scaling PHP Book (http://scalingphpbook.com) and (http://stevecorona.com/). Dan DeFelippi: Founder of passive.ly LLC (driverdan.com) and (http://passive.ly/). Premasagar Rose: Currently a Social Web Apps Developer. He is also the Director at Dharmafly, the Founder at Lab for the Recently Possible and Async (http://dharmafly.com/), (http://l4rp.com/), (http://asyncjs.com/) and (http://premasagar.com/). More on our guests can be found at http://www.hnpod.com/guests. Host: Michael Mahemoff (http://player.fm/) Stories Bring Back the 40 Hour Work Week http://www.salon.com/2012/03/14/bring_back_the_40_hour_work_week http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4779399 Personal Outsourcing http://stevecorona.com/how-i-automated-the-boring-parts-of-life http://razorfast.com/2011/09/04/announcing-my-new-project-bidonmyday/ How to Name Your Startup http://www.learndot.com/findings/how-to-name-your-startup http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4779410...
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Guests: Stuart Memo, Web Developer and co-creator of Question Park (http://stuartmemo.com/) and (http://questionpark.com/). Stuart recently presented at JSConf EU about making music in the browser. The link to his presentation can be found here: http://stuartmemo.com/javascript-is-the-new-punk-rock/ Michal Stefanow, Online Operations Associate http://michalstefanow.com/. More on our guests can be found at: http://hnpod.com/guests Host: Michael Mahemoff of http://player.fm/ Stories: The Future of Markdown http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/10/the-future-of-markdown.html http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4700160 HTML5 Gaming http://ektomarch.com/blog/ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4684696 Outlawed by Amazon DRM http://www.bekkelund.net/2012/10/22/outlawed-by-amazon-drm/ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4682392 Taurus.io: Product Tours http://taurus.io/ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4691072 Now Trending Michal The Christmas season and the many new devices that comes with...
By HNpodPublisher: Michael Mahemoff

Our guests today are Stuart Memo Web Developer and Co-Creator of Question Park (http://questionpark.com/), and Qwerty Hancock (http://stuartmemo.com/qwerty-hancock/) a browser-based embeddable music keyboard; and Addy Osmani, Developer Programs Engineer at Google, member of the jQuery team and also a writer (http://addyosmani.com/blog/). Stuart will soon be speaking at JSConf in Berlin, his speech entitled “JavaScript is the New Punk Rock.” More on our guests can be found at: (http://www.hnpod.com/guests). Host: Michael Mahemoff (http://player.fm/) Stories: State of HTML5 and HTML5 on native apps: FaceBook’s so-called “dropping” of HTML5 and what it means for the industry. Chrome Packaged Apps and HTML5-powered operating systems such as Firefox OS and Chrome OS. Web Development Frameworks: We examine how people are able to get work done using frameworks such as Yeoman. We also discuss how it came about. Web Audio: We discuss high performance for your browser and the various browsers that...
By HNpodPublisher: Michael Mahemoff

Our guests today are Ilya Lichtenstein co-founder of MixRank, a tool for companies to monitor their competitors' ad strategies (http://mixrank.com/), and a blogger (http://influencehacks.com/) and Dan Shipper, who has just released Firefly for screen-sharing support (http://usefirefly.com/) and also a blogger (http://danshipper.com/). More on our guests can be found at: http://www.hnpod.com/guests Host: Michael Mahemoff (http://player.fm/) Stories Unsexy Startups: We talk about startups that don’t fit into the status-quo; the companies are everything a “sexy” startup isn’t. We define unsexy startups and break down the steps unsexy companies are taking to generate real revenue and build sustainable businesses. Also related is Paul Graham's “Black Swan Farming” article from last walk. We talk about Y-Combinator's view on unsexy startups, and differences between YCombinator and 500Startups in this regard. Now Trending: Ilya: FaceBook’s to monetize search. Michael: Xiki (http://xiki.org...
By HNpodPublisher: Michael Mahemoff

Guests: Our guests are Paul Biggar, blogger and founder of Circle (https://circleci.com/) and Stephen Corona, CTO of TwitPic and author of Scaling PHP (http://scalingphpbook.com/). More on our guests can be found at: http://hnpod.com/guests Host: Michael Mahemoff (http://player.fm/) Stories GitHub: We examine how GitHub uses monitoring tools to stay fast, its features, and its main selling points. Amazon’s Kindle Range: We examine Amazon’s new range of Kindle products and how they stack up against Google and Apple products. We also take a deeper look into the new features that Amazon has integrated into their new Kindle line. Human.io: This is a product that was developed by Joshua Schachter. Human.io is basically a system for outsourcing tasks to mobile users, similar to Mechanical Turk. Now Trending Steve Corona: http://duolingo.com/ Platform for learning languages. Essentially it is like learning a language by crowd sourcing. The premise is that you will learn a language faster than...
By HNpodPublisher: Michael Mahemoff

Our guest today is Cameron Keng a tech savvy Certified Public Accountant, an Author and an Entrepreneur. His websites are http://autotax.me/ and his blog http://www.cameronkeng.com/. More info on our guests at http://hnpod.com/guests Host: Michael Mahemoff (http://player.fm) Stories Tent.io: Tent.io follows from recent happenings with app.net and Twitter and works similarly to Diaspora, where your information is your information, but as a low-level protocol. We discuss its prospects. Twitter Bootstrap: We examine the pros, cons, and features of Twitter Bootstrap, which just went 2.1. Evernote Moleskin: A notebook that includes special features to integrate right into Evernote. We discuss the practicality of Evernote Moleskin and also get into Cameron's specialty: tax issues for app developers. Bubblewatch: Acquisition of Mailgun by Rackspace. Now Trending Cameron: The usefulness of YouTube to create content for businesses and generate viable income. Mike: General chat/IM needs to be standardised...
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Our Guest today is Dan DeFelippi the Founder of passive.ly LLC (http://passive.ly/) and (http://driverdan.com/). More info on our guests at: http://hnpod.com/guests Host: Michael Mahemoff (http://player.fm) Stories Quora. Changes that Quora recently made making it mandatory that you log in, in addition to the changes that now show notifications of what people are reading. Mobile App Pricing. The 99 cents app pricing and the comparison that is oftentimes made between them and price of a cup of coffee. We also talk about the Gasketball App that was recently launched and although receiving 200,000 downloads has still not been a big moneymaker for the developers. Medium. The latest work by Obvious Corp (the people who brought Twitter into the world). We talk about its incorporation of the new type of websites that mix blogging and curation. Bubblewatch: Paymill. The new payment service that the Samwer Brothers from Germany recently launched, a clone of payment service Stripe. Now Trending How...
By HNpodPublisher: Michael Mahemoff

Our guests are Chad Etzel, head of Mobile Exec and founder of Notifo (http://www.jazzychad.net/) and (https://iamexec.com/) and Paul Kinlan Senior Developer Advocate at Google (http://paul.kinlan.me/) and (http://webintents.org/). You can also check out Web Intents Wednesdays at https://developers.google.com/live/shows/ahNzfmdvb2dsZS1kZXZlbG9wZXJzcg4LEgVFdmVudBjIsZgDDA/. More info on our guests at http://hnpod.com/guests. Host: Michael Mahemoff (http://player.fm) Stories Twitter and App.net. We discuss the changes that Twitter has undergone in order to become the advertising focused company it is today and whether they were the best for the company. Chad takes us through App.net in detail and we discuss its chances and opportunities. Platform Choice for Startups. We talk about how startups can choose the platform they launch with. Going beyond just "Web vs. Native" to talk about the specifics of Android, iOS, and Chrome packaged apps. Bubblewatch: Box.com. Box.com raised $125 million last...
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Guests: Our guests are Stuart Memo, Web Developer and Co-creator of Question Park (http://stuartmemo.com/), and Christian Fernandez, Co-founder of Hackbright Academy (http://hackbrightacademy.com). More information about Stuart and Christian can be found in the featured guest section on our website. Host: Michael Mahemoff (http://player.fm) Stories: The introduction of Google Fiber. Stuart, Christian and I discuss the various introduction packages that Google Fiber has launched. We talk about the potential uses of Google Fiber, how Google is moving towards being a media company. And Fiberhoods - neighborhoods coming together to get invited to Google Fiber. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fiber In Bubblewatch, the open-source Meteor project recently raised around $11 million in funding to make building client-side web apps easy and fast. We discuss where they're taking it and how the community feels about Meteor and contributing to a project of this nature. http://venturebeat.com/2012...
By HNpodPublisher: Michael Mahemoff

Our podcast for this week starts out with our guests Ilya Lichtenstein of MixRank (http://mixrank.com and http://influencehacks.com/) and Dave Peck (https://www.getcloak.com/ & http://davepeck.org/) giving a brief introduction about themselves and the various projects that they are currently working on. (More information on Ilya and Dave can be found in the featured guest section on our website). Stories: Appointment of Marissa Mayer as Yahoo’s new chief. Ilya, Dave and myself discuss the impact that she will have on Yahoo. We talk about the future of the various Yahoo platforms such as DuckDuckGo and Yahoo BOSS API and how Marissa fits into the general scheme of things, given that she is more product focused. Bubblewatch (1) Digg sold. In this segment we discuss the price that Digg was sold for and the breakdown of the sale. We also talk about Digg’s previous sale attempt. Additionally we talk about the rise and fall of Digg and the events that could have lead to its sale price. Finally...
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Welcome to the HNpod revival show! Topics: Ouya, the open-source, Android powered TV game console Kickstarter. Can they attract high-production developers to compete against the incumbent consoles? GitHub's raises $100M funding round. What will they do with it? http://weknowwhatyouredoing.com/ and marketing privacy-related tools
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The big, but unsurprising, news of the week was Google's launch of Drive. It's like Dropbox but from Google. We start by talking about why it's taken Google so long to get it out the door, what's lacking and what it means for Dropbox. I drift us off into some fantasy M&A for a while, before we get back to talking about working hours and whether startups need to be putting in serious hours, or kicking back on a 40-hour week. We then chat about various bits of Bubblicious news in our regular Bubblewatch(TM).
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We kick off with a chat about Kickstarter's rise to prominence - its funding of the Pebble Wristwatch and Light Table. Skim over the effect of Kickstarter on Open Source. We then talk about the Raspberry Pi, and hopes that it will both create new smart electronics, and inspire kids to start coding like the good old days of the C64. Finally we have a chat about Facebook's acquisition of Instagram, and what other options there could have been. (During the show I mention a company doing an early version of open product development - I can't remember the name of it. Can anyone help? It was a French company, with lightbulb for a logo and I think it had a name that started crowd. This would be around 2007.) UPDATE: The French startup was Crowdspirit - sadly it's been closed since 2010, but it was ahead of its time. UPDATE 2: (October 16, 2012 by Michael Mahemoff). Alex originally created a bonus "HTML5 versus Native" episode for this one, as a separate feed item, on April 25 2012. I've removed...
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